CNN 2008-08-31
时间：2018-12-30 作者：英语课 分类：商业报道2008年(八)月
Hi, everyone. I'm Asieh Namdar at the CNN.com Newsroom in Atlanta. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
Hurricane Gustav has reached Category 4 status, with sustained winds near 145 miles per hour. Highways along the US Gulf 1 Coast have been choked with people trying to leave threatened cities. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says Gustav is extremely dangerous and people should heed 2 the warnings.
"I am strongly, strongly encouraging everyone in the city to evacuate 3. Start the process now. Go north if you can, because the storm may continue to turn a little bit west. So if you can go north, that would be good. My message today is to tourist, in addition, it's time for you to leave the city. All tourists, I'm asking you to start the process of evacuating 4 from our city. Do not wait, start the evacuation process. If the …"
In India, 20 people are missing after a rescue boat capsized. More than 300, 000 people have been rescued from India's worst flooding in fifty years. But nearly twice that many are stranded 5 without food or water.
A memorial service for Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones in Cleveland today. Tubbs Jones was the first African-American woman to represent Ohio in Congress. She died of a brain hemorrhage Aug. 28th, at age 58. Presidential candidate Barack Obama is among the many attending. He said he was struck by how unassuming Tubbs Jones was even after spending more than a decade in Congress.
DNA 6 evidence is helping 7 police solve a string of killings 8 in California. First police in Santa Monica have linked one man to the murders of three women dating back to 1993. The suspect is in jail and denies the charges. Meanwhile, police in LA are using DNA evidence to track down another suspected serial 9 killer 10. They now say one person is linked to the shootings of 11 people dating back to 1985. They don't have a suspect because the DNA doesn't map samples in the crime databases.
In Minnesota, an anarchist 11 group is accusing police of trying to disrupt their planned protest at the Republican National Convention, when they’ve raided the group's office. It happened in St. Paul last night. The group says it didn't do anything illegal. They say police detained and photographed at least 50 people. Police searched the group's office but won't say what they were looking for.
And those are the headlines this hour. For more on these stories and other news of the day, CNN is your source online, on TV, or when you are on the go.
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
- You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事。
- For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance.这是他第一次非得注意自己的外表不可了。
- We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
- They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
- The solution is degassed by alternately freezing, evacuating and thawing. 通过交替的冻结、抽空和溶化来使溶液除气。
- Are we evacuating these potential targets? 能够在这些目标地域内进行疏散吗？
- He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
- I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。
- DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。
- Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
- The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
- A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
- Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗？
- Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
- The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。